Word: distraction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Counselor Thomasina Hassler says many black students' grades suffer because of family problems or responsibilities at home that distract from studies. To make her point, she brandishes a ranking of last year's 267 seniors; of the 34 who graduated with a 4.0 or better GPA, none was black. Searching the list for the highest-ranking black student, she runs her finger down the second page to No. 59, Tanya Hoard, who graduated with a 3.67 average. Hassler, who is black, wishes there were more like Hoard and thinks both black and white teachers at Webster must work harder...
...because it is beautiful." Beauty, for him, lies in stripping away any layer from a thing until it is totally naked. He uses his video camera to get to the essence of a subject. That is, he struggles to see things as they are, while his parents and neighbors distract themselves with various illusions. Right before his death, Burnham recognizes the truth of Ricky's perspective, reaching, in a way, nirvana. He remembers the early days of his marriage, his love for wife and daughter, and perceives, for the first time, beauty...
...pilot took evasive action, because the choppers weren?t carrying even defensive systems such as flares to distract heat-seeking missiles -- although it was only back at the base that we discovered how close we?d come to being hit. When I got back to the office, I learned that our stringer in Karachi had been taken to the area on a similar trip by the Pakistani military. So there was a reporter from TIME on the Pakistani side when we were fired on. As always, we?re covering both sides...
...united in our belief that long court battle would only distract us from our real challenge of raising the level of achievement in all our schools," Menino said...
...begun his cancer speech than Administration aides were leaking their own big medical news--the boss's plans for Medicare reform--thereby stepping on Gore's headlines. The President is less cavalier about Hillary's priorities. He rearranged his schedule so that a Capitol Hill Medicare event would not distract from the First Lady's photo op at the National Archives. He went to New York to start raising $125 million for his presidential library. Not much in that for Al, especially at a time when Hillary was also scavenging around New York, looking for $20 million that might otherwise...